News reports say that Jordan forced a group of tourists to remove their kipot and tzitzis and expelled them for the crime of praying at the kever of Aharon in Petra. We know that Jews are barred from praying on Har HaBayis. It goes without saying that were the shoe on the other foot and we barred others from worship, we would never hear the end of it.
Did you ever wonder what they are so afraid of?
They seem to take our tefilos pretty seriously and think that whatever we are doing has some meaning. Maybe something for us to take to heart.
"Did you ever wonder what they are so afraid of?"
ReplyDeleteif service of the heart, Devarim 11:13, is taken to mean prayer, prayer that is answered by plenteous food for livestock, 11:15, and if Reuven & Gad claimed the transjordan specifically for their livestock, and if the officials who harried the mispallelim had something like mazal to see* that ancient claim renewed, then we need wonder no more...
*megillah 3a
I do not think it is that; rather they just don't like us and don't want us to enjoy the ability to pray where we want
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